Calculating the Home Advantage in Soccer Leagues

A recent article published in the Journal of Human Kinetics (Saavedra et al., 2013) was based on a flawed methodology when calculating the home advantage values in soccer leagues. This led to incorrect calculations, false conclusions and some misleading results about home advantage in 52 soccer leag...

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Autores principales: Gómez, Miguel-Ángel, Pollard, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Katowicach 2014
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25031667
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/hukin-2014-0001
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description A recent article published in the Journal of Human Kinetics (Saavedra et al., 2013) was based on a flawed methodology when calculating the home advantage values in soccer leagues. This led to incorrect calculations, false conclusions and some misleading results about home advantage in 52 soccer leagues of UEFA countries over a 10 year period. The aim of this letter was to explain these flaws and to make sure future research would not be influenced by the subsequent results and conclusions that had been presented
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spelling pubmed-40960812014-07-16 Calculating the Home Advantage in Soccer Leagues Gómez, Miguel-Ángel Pollard, Richard J Hum Kinet Letter to the Editor A recent article published in the Journal of Human Kinetics (Saavedra et al., 2013) was based on a flawed methodology when calculating the home advantage values in soccer leagues. This led to incorrect calculations, false conclusions and some misleading results about home advantage in 52 soccer leagues of UEFA countries over a 10 year period. The aim of this letter was to explain these flaws and to make sure future research would not be influenced by the subsequent results and conclusions that had been presented Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Katowicach 2014-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4096081/ /pubmed/25031667 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/hukin-2014-0001 Text en © Editorial Committee of Journal of Human Kinetics This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096081/
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